220 Mr. Copland’s Account of 
Dependents or Clan would wifh to have their bones 
depofited in the fame fpot. * 
From the people in this country having for a 
long time very little intercourfe with their neigh- 
bours, as Galloway ‘continued feveral hundred years 
an independent Sovereignty from the reft of Scot- 
land,* being one half furrounded by the Sea, and 
the remainder by ranges of very high Mountains, 
it is probable that they continued the practice of 
burning their dead, longer than in other parts of 
the Ifland, and, in all probability, for fome time 
after their converfion to Chriftianity. From the 
following defcription of a Cemetery, that feems to 
paitake of a mixed nature, viz. both of burning 
and inhuming, and from the inftrument of iron 
being found almoft perfect, and very little hurt by 
ruft, whch appeared to have been ufed for con- 
fuming the corpfe, with a fmall quantity of fuel, 
it is prébable that the burning of dead bodies has 
not been in difufe fo many hundred years as is 
generally imagined. 
Having occafion to build a dry ftone fence on my 
ground, the workmen, in order to get ftones, eafily 
went for that purpofe to what had the appearance of 
an old inclofure. It was fi tuated ona piece of 
ground 
ii* See. ia Differtation on the Kingdom of Galloway in 
Archzologia, vol, gth. of ‘the Antiquarian Society, by 
Robert Riddell, Efq. of Glenriddell, 
